Nancy Jainchill is an unapologetic feminist, who appreciates the complexity of what “feminism” represents, both in the abstract, and personally. Embracing the more inclusive perspective of intersectional feminism, she is an advocate for gender rights. Her personal struggles began, as is so often true, with her relationship with her father, described in Sol’s Exodus in Every Father’s Daughter (Margaret McMullan (ed.) McPherson Pub., Kingston, NY, pp. 67-76). Her continued efforts to assume the equality that she espouses has been an impetus for her writing, which has always reflected her concerns with social issues more generally, and with women’s issues in particular. Most recently her writing has focused on matters of sexual justice, discussing the rights of sex workers, the role of pornography in establishing gender parity and sexual equity, and an exploration of her own experiences and evolution of her thinking.

Related publications include: Pop-Ins & Floggings: Inside the Senior Porn Revolution (Evergreen Review, Mar. 2023); The Future of Sex Ed is the Internet (Wired Magazine, Nov. 2022); What I Learned from Doing Amateur Porn (Longreads, Apr. 2019; Oldster, Sept. 2022); How A Porn Star Became My Muse (Brevity Magazine: Concise Literary Nonfiction, Apr. 2019); Skinny Dipping for the Environment (Advantages of Age, Mar. 2019); Pornography as a Model for Consensual Sex and Feminism (The Fanzine, Feb. 2019); Violence Against Sex Workers is Not OK (Medium, Dec. 2018); Bringing Candida Home (entropymag.org January 20, 2016).

With a doctorate in psychology, aside from her clinical practice, she is a well-known researcher whose studies have been widely published, addressing the problems and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Understanding and Treating Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Nancy Jainchill (ed.) Civic Research Institute, 2012. She also has a Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies, and an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars Program.